The global law firm Jones Day has announced that Steve Smith has joined the Firm as a partner in the San Francisco Office where he will be part of Jones Day’s Global Disputes Practice. Mr. Smith arrives from the San Francisco office of O’Melveny & Myers, where he was a partner and chair of the firm’s International Arbitration Practice.
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E. Donald Elliott, a leading environmental and administrative lawyer and scholar, has joined Covington & Burling, strengthening the firm’s top-ranked environmental and product liability practices.
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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP served as legal advisor to private-equity firm Rizvi Traverse Management LLC in its acquisition of a majority stake in music performance-rights company SESAC Inc. for about $600 million.
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International law firm Davis Wright Tremaine announced the recruitment of Erica Wilson to its Bay Area office, according to a press release.
The partner focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation, particularly for the software and biotech industries. This continues a growth trend for the group, which also hired Eric Walters within the past year.
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Winston & Strawn LLP today announced Michael Tomasulo has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the intellectual property practice. Mr. Tomasulo’s practice focuses on high stakes intellectual property litigation and counseling for a wide array of technology clients. Mr. Tomasulo practiced with the same group for 17 years, most recently with Jones Day and then Dickstein Shapiro in Los Angeles.
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Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Andrea P. Beatty as a corporate partner in the firm’s Sydney office. She is the first new partner to join K&L Gates since the firm’s January 1 combination with Australian national firm Middletons.
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Law firm Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP (SGR) has announced that eight attorneys have joined the Intellectual Property Practice in Washington, D.C. The group, comprised of three partners, three counsel and two associates, comes to SGR from the Washington, D.C. office of Murphy & King, P.C.Partner Edward A. Pennington will head the Firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Practice.
Tags: Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLPChadbourne & Parke LLP represented the sponsors, GDF SUEZ, the French utility company, and Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. Ltd., on the successful $990 million project financing raised by Japanese Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) and a group of commercial banks composed of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd., Mizuho Corporate Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
On December 31, 2012, after a contentious four-year Chapter 11 case, Tribune Company and its debtor subsidiaries successfully emerged from Chapter 11 protection. Chadbourne & Parke represented the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Tribune case, which involved approximately $13 billion in total funded debt and was the largest bankruptcy in the history of the American media industry. When Tribune filed for reorganization, it owned eight newspapers (including The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune), 23 television stations and the Chicago Cubs.
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Paul Hastings, a leading global law firm, announced today that it represented Guangdong Nan Yue Logistics Company Limited (“Nan Yue Logistics”), a leading expressway and integrated logistics services provider in China’s Guangdong Province, on its acquisition of the entire interest in Guangdong Vehicles Transportation Group Company Limited (“Guangdong Vehicles Transportation”) from Guangdong Provincial Communication Group Company Limited (“GCGC”). Guangdong Vehicles Transportation is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nan Yue Logistics.
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